Wei, Jingsheng

The courage to stand alone : letters from prison and other writings by Jingsheng Wei ( Book )
14 editions published between 1996 and 1998 in English and held by 1,110 libraries worldwide
Written in a prison cell in China, this is the moving and forceful first book by the paramount leader and symbol of the ongoing struggle for democracy and human rights in China. Once an electrician at the Beijing Zoo, Wei Jingsheng emerged as an eloquent and utterly fearless fighter for individual rights in China during the Democracy Wall Movement in the late 1970s. Though he's spent all but six months of the last seventeen years in prison (now serving a lengthy second sentence), the spirit of his message has continued to inspire generations of Chinese democracy activists from the students in Tiananmen Square to the wary citizens of Hong Kong. From his solitary-confinement cell he's composed defiant letters to Deng Xiaoping and other Communist leaders, expressing with breathtaking boldness his views on economic reform, foreign investment and relations, Tibet, and other urgent (and often taboo) political topics and social concerns. The book also includes touching letters to his family and friends, an autobiographical essay, his trial defense statement, and the legendary 1979 wall poster that landed him in prison. With humor and irony that survives his debilitating treatment, Wei's eloquent letters tell the story of courage in the face of tyranny and inhumanity. A towering figure in twentieth-century China, Wei Jingsheng is the most important political prisoner in the world today. The publication of his book may be an opportunity to bring freedom of expression - a human right that knows no borders - to Wei and his fellow citizens. It is certainly a tribute to the durability of the human spirit.

魏京生獄中書信集 by 魏京生 ( Book )
4 editions published between 1997 and 1999 in German and Chinese and held by 75 libraries worldwide

「探索」與魏京生 ( Book )
6 editions published in 1983 in Chinese and held by 57 libraries worldwide

La cinquième modernisation et autres écrits du printemps de Pékin by Jingsheng Wei ( Book )
4 editions published in 1997 in French and held by 44 libraries worldwide

Wei Jingsheng : the man and his ideas ( Book )
4 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 28 libraries worldwide

北京之春詩文選 : 《民主牆》往何處去 ( Book )
6 editions published in 1980 in Chinese and held by 27 libraries worldwide

魏京生假釋以來言論集 by 魏京生 ( Book )
3 editions published between 1996 and 1997 in Chinese and held by 25 libraries worldwide

魏京生啓示錄 ( Book )
8 editions published in 1981 in Chinese and held by 25 libraries worldwide

肯定自由・肯定民主 ( Book )
2 editions published in 1979 in Chinese and held by 24 libraries worldwide

Conversaciones con El Dalai Lama : la sabiduría y el sentir del líder espiritual by Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho ( Book )
1 edition published in 2005 in Spanish and held by 11 libraries worldwide